February 2012
No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The...
– Haruki Murakami (via 4quariums)
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...
– Anais Nin (via happycollision)
When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and...
– Nicholas Sparks (via eletheowl)
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be...
– Charles Bukowski (via anti-suburbia)
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here.
– Sylvia Plath (via talkativolive)
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...
– Ray Bradbury (via atomiclanterns)
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
– Haruki Murakami (via misswallflower)
‘People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,’ thought Francie,...
– Betty Smith (via misswallflower)
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)
I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.
– David Foster Wallace (via fiyaonchelsea)
moonythemarauder:
isn’t it strange how attractive people are really just a nice-looking arrangement of atoms
like
damn you have a great deoxyribonucleic acid arrangement
There is a loneliness in the world so great that you can see it in the slow...
– Charles Bukowski (via talkativolive)
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via xx-rapunzel-xx)
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I spent an entire day working on a paper for my economics class and the paper didn’t save.
Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
– Soren Kierkegaard (via forbleuskies)
I guess there are never enough books.
– John Steinbeck, as cited in A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (via bookoasis)
The distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it...
– Johnathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no...
– Madeleine L’Engle (via splashedcolors)
I really like tea.
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own...
– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
– Franz Kafka (via amandaonwriting)
I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.
– J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)